Well...I've been diagnosed.

And today, after an extremely painful poking and prodding session, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Yippee ki yay. LOL. Actually, I'm not surprised. He upped the dosage of lyrica to see if that doesn't help more.

I'm going to go through all the helpful info soon. Can't tonight. Just a few random questions. Do any of you end up spending all night up and then have to survive on 6 or less hours a night routinely? I get the fog. People are always asking me "What did you WANT?" 'cause I'll start asking for something and then forget entirely what I needed/wanted in the first place.

Trying to hang in there until January so I'll have some insurance and can visit a rheumy, neuro, GI, primary, pain control, and possibly a shrink so I could stop crying and living in my own lil pity party. :-P

Well, I'm sorry you have fibro but at least you know why you feel so rotten. Glad you have joined our family here on Fibro Island. It's a tiny respite is a sea of pain. Without the friendship and help from the people here I would never survive the pain of fibro. I know you'll find what you need here too. It's an awesome group.

Hi Joie and welcome. As hard as fibro can be to live with sometimes it is a relief to know what you are fighting. I'm going through that with my digestive system right now. Whatever is there is there I just want to know what it is that is causing the problems. I don't care for mysteries when it comes to my body.

I think you already know what a caring group of people this is so we will be here to help you.

Joie, we are here to help you. This is a great group. You will learn a lot, get a lot of support, and have a few laughs. We will help you live a full and enjoyable life with fibro...if we remember to help you!

I do not sleep well either unless I have ambien. I'm growing used to the brain fog, some days I'm surprised I remember to do anything at all. Right now I just have muscle relaxers, I'm trying not to be one a whole lot. But I do take something for depression and anxiety which apparently comes from having this pain in the rear problem. Guess it's just a matter of dealing with it the best we can.Ramie

Hmm...thanks for all the support and thoughts. I can't take Ambien. They tried to give me that in the hospital when I was awake for three days after I came out of the weeklong drug fog (huge amounts of painkillers after surgery). I couldn't sleep. So they gave me half an ambien...I thought I was going to kill something. My limbs were all heavy and wooden but my mind was racing. LOL, I don't respond well to sleep aids. Well...I responded to that one from another surgery...A something. It's also a muscle relaxer or some such. Adavan? But cripes, I don't want to take crap to sleep. LOL.

Trying to hang in there until January so I'll have some insurance and can visit a rheumy, neuro, GI, primary, pain control, and possibly a shrink so I could stop crying and living in my own lil pity party. :-P

I mainly just take a muscle relaxer and ambien. I'm sure there is more out there that I could try but the dr I have right now is just well actually a PA so I am getting a referral to a rheumy so that may help out.

I know there are some days that I'd just rather not get out of bed. My husband was not feeling well today and he said his joints hurt really bad and he wonder if I hurt like that all the time....ummmm yeah I hurt like that all the time.Ramie